Galaxy Wipe

[Old Racer]

I have never experienced a wipe before and was wondering what stays and what goes " Poof ". Can anyone who has experienced these before answer a couple of questions. I understand this time may be different but I would like to know what has happened last time : 1. Does inventory storage on my freighter get wiped or only the ones I have a duplicate of on a planet. 2. Does everything in my ships ( docked on my freighter ) stay or get wiped. 3. Is it worth saving a game to another location make any difference and if so how simple is that ?

Thanks for your response in advance ...

Fly Safe

[Peaceful Joe]

From my experience with past updates, galaxy wipes mainly deal with planets changing, looking different. For example, a planet I was on changed from paradise to a volcanic hell with fire storms between updates. An update shouldn't erase any of your inventory, achievements, items, upgrades, ships, or any other progress.

[Peaceful Joe]

It would also be cool if galaxy wipes could be written in the lore so that it is easier to digest for players lol

[xPEDx]

My 3 wipes only changed the planets and ship skins, however i didnt use any save editors or cheats, so my storage was all fine. my lush planets turned to baron , and my nice ships turned to ugly . some buildings in my base where missing as the planets had changed shape and atmosphere , from humid to poison . things like that.

[Old Racer]

Thanks for the quick response people, I run no mods or save editors and don't have a large Base yet. Only have 6 small outposts on certain planets for collecting resources. I am good with those getting wiped if I can keep all my resources and ships that are on my Freighter.

Thanks again ...

[jonnin]

typically in my experience

all planets are re-randomized (critters, weather, type, ground up) and your base may be buried or floating but is almost always a do-over as its usually generated on a horrid place.

your stashed / stored stuff may be obsolete. seems every time they make new versions of the same stuff and the old is discarded or vendor trash after.

some installed tech may be broken / obsolete.

prices / values of things radically shift making stored up cash cow items worth nothing.

crafting recipes are often redone

some quests you had may be broken after. a drop and re-get fixes this usually, but main quests may be perma borky or take a galaxy warp to cure.

dunno if 'addresses' and 'hubs' are obsolete after.

I have not had any major problems, but lots of lost money and aggravations. I recommend you sell anything of value, including rare minerals and such. The rest of it you can mostly deal with after.

[AtticusX]

Has there been any confirmed official word there would be a galaxy reset like before, or are we just assuming? I'd like to know from HG if I need to prepare for a reset or not.

[Eekhoorn]

Originally posted by Joseph7000:

It would also be cool if galaxy wipes could be written in the lore so that it is easier to digest for players lol

It kinda already is, isn't it?

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by AtticusX:

Has there been any confirmed official word there would be a galaxy reset like before, or are we just assuming? I'd like to know from HG if I need to prepare for a reset or not.

No.

I don't believe they addressed it ahead of time for NEXT either though, you just got a pop-up when you logged in explaining the situation.

I would recommend people remove "redundant" bases you might have lying around. e.g. i put bases down on planets next to large crops of plants so that i didnt have to build a farm myself, would just warp there whenever i needed something.

There was also no indication that freighter bases would be outright deleted due to the changing tile sets.

[kgwrigh]

One of the most annoying impacts from a major upgrade is that you may lose a lot of the NPC language you spent so much time learning. Makes getting rewards from Operating Centres and Manufacturing Centres harder.

[OZFugazi]

this again

first off: there has NEVER been a "wipe" to the NMS universe/universes. ever. with the definition of "wipe" being a complete deletion of all player created instances, and complete reset to all discoveries and player based activities to all planets ect. definition of wipe.

there simply has not ever been a "fresh start" or "wipe" from any of the major updates from pathfinder on.

what many people confuse for a "wipe" is when changes are made to the biomes (atlas rising update), or when certain assets, such as ship parts or flora/fauna additions get included or changed from one update to the next. this is however not a "wipe".

atlas rises was the update with the largest impact of upset and confused players as when the changes to the biomes were created.. many planets that used to be one type. (lush and beautiful and perfect for a player base) transformed over the patch into something completely different sometimes resembling something from ones nightmares. along with that, many people who spent a good deal of time creating bases (especially those underground) would log into a base that was completely buried or simply missing. also the biome changes effected how fauna/flora were "regenerated" to the new biome conditions. keep in mind, the way claiming a base was much different than it is now as well, as it was tied and generated to the actual planet and not something you put down yourself, anywhere you want, like the new base computer.

again.. this was not a "wipe".

HG did what they could at the time to offer a way to load the old based, even going as far as to put in a workshop function (that no longer works or is needed) to get back all that hard work lost. with some success, but not without a lot of frustration and player anger. HG has since then made it clear not to make changes like that again or changes that might effect the time players spent. ie: wipe.

it is prudent to make backups of save data. it is prudent to (as asmosis suggested) clean house a bit and remove things you don't need or use anymore. its good to collect iventory and be prepared for a possible worse. more than likely however, nothing will change and everything should be in working order after update and login. some players may even turn off auto update to the game until the dust settles.

all the best.

[Bandy]

I think I'll just start a new game anyways, my heart will be broken when I my beautiful desert planet base, built under a natural arch with a valley view and space port, will pack up...

I enjoy more of the beginning of games anyways.

[OGNocturnal]

Im not gonna write a book on this as its not needed to explain the update process.

Its just going to be a planet and biome regurgitation including fauna and flora. It's not gonna be the same thing that you originally thought was nice and handy. It will change.
Stuff held in things like your exosuit/craft will be fine(minus any tech or resource changes from the update) you will get material value back for any changes. You can access your gear again simply by repawning your ships/craft or placing the storage containers.

[Asmosis]

Wipe isnt quite the right term for it, but i hope it does happen.

The reason being the universe is kinda boring with its strict uniformity right now. All the planets are the same (per biome). In order to change that though (or introduce new planet biomes) the algorithms get changed rather than handchanging planets (which is impossible, given scale).

From what i've seen in the trailers, there are at least some changes but whether they are drastic or not wont know till launch.